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All the ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'Human Freedom and the Self' and 'Statements about Universals'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals

8499	Nominalists cannot translate 'red resembles pink more than blue' into particulars [Jackson]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

8500	Colour resemblance isn't just resemblance between things; 'colour' must be mentioned [Jackson]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will

3444	If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

3446	For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm]

9268	If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions

3442	Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm]

3443	Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5655	Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

3445	Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm]